Arun's Starter Pack
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@arunpandianp.bsky.social
@bcantrill.bsky.social
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@maggieappleton.com
Design engineer exploring applied AI and hacky prototypes. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com
@expede.wtf
📍 Vancouver, Canada 🔰 Always learning 🏳️🌈 Sapphic as heck 🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights ✊ BLM & Land Back 🤝 United we stand, divided we fall ✍️ notes.brooklynzelenka.com 👩🏼💻 github.com/expede 🐘 types.pl/@expede
@elizas.website
e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@staltz.com
JavaScript and open source guy. Working at @socket.dev Previously: Manyverse, SSB, Cycle.js, RxJS
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@wattenberger.com
web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought ✨ Design @ SHV 🌸 wattenberger.com
@andymatuschak.org
More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy! Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention. https://andymatuschak.org Twitter: andy_matuschak Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@chris.blue
Writer of books (http://themissingreadme.com), code (http://slatedb.io), checks (http://materializedview.capital), and newsletters (http://materializedview.io)
@inkandswitch.com
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought. We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
@geoffreylitt.com
Malleable software @inkandswitch.com prev PhD @csail.mit.edu geoffreylitt.com 🇯🇵🇺🇸
@hillelwayne.com
Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open and happy to meet up in Chicago. Currently writing *Logic for Programmers* (out Q4 2025) Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
@schickling.dev
Building a local-first music app overtone.pro with @livestore.dev. Host @localfirst.fm. DX Effect. Founded @prisma.io. schickling.dev
@ironyuppie.com
CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. There is many a worse and more elaborate life.
@withenoughcoffee.com
👩🏾💻🌮🍩💻 🌙🪬🧿Lover of nerd jokes, tacos & ☕️Coffee • Mom • 📚 Books • Advocate • OpenSource• DevOps• Java• Linux• Security • 🎙Speaker • NoSQL Databases• MilSpouseCoders Thoughts are my own she/her https://www.fafo.fm https://sessionize.com/autumn-nash
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
@godpod.bsky.social
Creator of the Universe. Daily free newsletter & animated podcast here: https://www.thegodpodcast.com
@charity.wtf
cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
@aaronboodman.com
CEO rocicorp.dev. Building replicache.dev and zerosync.dev, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Also found at http://aaronboodman.com.
@hannes.muehleisen.org
I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs. Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud Universiteit.
@xmal.bsky.social
Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023) Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
@gunnarmorling.dev
Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of JfrUnit, kcctl and MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
@robhaisfield.com
"Influencer" in a literal sense. I help you design software to influence user behavior for continued user buy-in, increasing adoption, retention, and virality. BeSci and Game Design. Product thoughts: RobHaisfield.com My research: ScalingSynthesis.com
@qianli.dev
Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI Amateur bird watcher 🦉 Personal site: qianli.dev She/her.
@avi.im
breaking databases @tur.so W1 '21 @recursecenter.bsky.social excited about databases, storage engines and message queues
@pvh.ca
just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
@jackrusher.com
Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin. 🐘@jack@jackrusher.com 🐦@jackrusher
@adamwiggins.bsky.social
Working to make computers better at The Browser Company. Previously cofounded Muse, Ink & Switch, Heroku.
@wattenberg.bsky.social
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
@spiralganglion.com
i want to feel something when i program the computer @inkandswitch.com Δ futureofcoding.org Δ ivanish.ca he/him, canadian, let's be friends
@jtauber.com
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music. Python, Web, Corpus Linguistics, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space, Health. Perseus DL. Greek Learner Texts Project & Digital Tolkien Project.
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social
Searching for the numinous Australian Canadian, currently living in the US https://michaelnotebook.com
@arunpandianp.bsky.social